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jfcTOTJST 11, 1855.] r T H E LEADED 7^3
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NAVAL AND MILITARY* NEWS. T»tE Naval Hos...
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MISCELLANEOUS. The Couut.—The King of Po...
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America.—The state of afiairs in the gre...
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Co Ntinental Notts S. The French Loan.—T...
Austria and the "Western Powers was never so complete oa it is now , and the Italian revolutionary party has never yet been so categorically informed that it has no help to expect from the French Government . " A . most dreadful explosion has taken place at the sCaste l Nuovo in Naples . A portion of this building 3 T « s devoted to the manufacture of percussion-caps , the whole of which , owing to negligence , ignited . The . entire building blew up , arul two hundred persons are eaid to have been buried in the ruins . Thi . s number , however , is probably exaggerated ; but the utmost consternation was excited all over the city , it being thought at first that a revolution had burst out .
TJie Corutitutionnel has an article , professing to disclose the existence of a conspiracy on the part of the French and Spanish legitimists , with the direct concurrence of their respective chiefs , the Count < le Chnmbord and the Couut dc Montemolin , to g « t up an insurrection in Spain hv the aid of Russian gold ; the avowed object being to * make a diversion in favour of Russia , and so embarrass the Allies in their conduct of the war . A report , said to be addressed to the Count de Moutcmoliu , and to have been seized at'tho house of one of his most faithful generals , is appended by the Const itutionnel in
proof of its assertions . The Duke de Levis and M . Cbapot , two of the persons concerned iu the document , have written to the Const it utiu / uwl to deny the truth of the statements ; but General Klio , the writer of the paper in question , and who is still in Paris , or close to it , has not yet come forward . Viscount d'Kscars admits that he was charged by Couut de Montemolin with a letter to Prince Gortschnkofl" , but he asserts that the Count de Charnbord and the Diike de Levis were completely strangers to the affair . The Tunes Paris correspondent says that even more important memoranda . are in the hands of tho French Governmeut , but are
suppressed for the present . A Secret Consistory , it is said , was held on the 2 Gth of Jul }* , at the Vatican , on which occasion Spain and Piedmont were threatened with excommunication on account of their recent measures with respect to the Church . French soldiers continue to depart from liorue . Of the twelve gates of the city , only three are now held by them—i . e , the Cavalkggieri , leading to Chita Vccchia : the I ' orta del Popolo , leading to Tuscany and Romagna ; and the Porta San Giovanni , on the road to Naples .
M . Ferdinand de Lesseps has published a pamphlet with respect to hLs proposed ship-canal through the Isthmus of Suez . Having explored the route , he delivered in a report , in the course of last March , to Said Pacha , who was convinced of the possibility of establishing n ship communication direct from Suez to Pclusium , at nn estimated cost of 0 , 100 , 000 / . It is suid that Said Pacha means to lay the scheme before engineers from England , France , Holland , Germany , and Italy . From Tripoli we hear tliat the Arabs are masters of the country . Accounts from Alexandria of July 28 state that the Viceroy had returned from his expedition against the Bedouins , who had made their submission . Twenty-five fresh shocks of earthquake have been felt at liroussa .
Abd-el-Kader is ill . The Persian Government , instigated by Russia , is said to have suppressed the Protestant schools .
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Naval And Military* News. T»Te Naval Hos...
NAVAL AND MILITARY * NEWS . T » tE Naval Hospital at IIasl . au , near Portsmouth , ¦ was visited on Saturday by the Queen . Hokb Drunkknkkss in Tin : Camp . — Lieutenant A . W- Kirby , l'Jtli Kcgiinout , has been cashiered for 4 xonkeuncss and for offering violence to Lieutenant Holesworth of the same regiment , when parading the guard for the trenches before Subastopol . Tun Foiikion Lkoion at Siiohscufth :. —The first brigade of the Foreign Legion is so well advanced at SiwrncluTe , Camp , that it will bo ready for service in the Criiaoa in a few days . Its place at Sliornclitfe will be fitted up by another brigade , which will be formed in less tifarro than the first . The brigade was reviewed on Dhnrsduy by the Queen .
Barkagk Aooommooation . —On Saturday was issued the Report of tho Omcial Committee on barrack Accommodation for tho army . The Committee , express an Opinion that tho accommodation hitherto provided in tarrocks has been very inadequate both for tho eomfort . andconvenience of tho soldiers and for the creation < tfl » higher touo of social habits . They suggtwt > n-ClWWed ablution-rooms , kitchens , wash- houses , and Ottlor conveniences , while they advise the formation of ttgitiMnial libraries , to ho common alike to non-coinrakwkraed officers and man , and recommend the ooitti-NMnco Of the plan of having a chapol in barracks to Wrvo alao aa a school .
Army Clotiiino . —Two Royal Warrants havo been Uimcd , tho ono relieving colonels from tho duty of np-P » l * tlng thoir own clothiers , and the other abolishing thoiConaolidatod Hoard of ( Joneral CMNcers . KequiaitioiiH ftur . olothbjg are henceforth to be went in to tho Director-General of Army Clothing , and requisitions fi > r iiceoutrementn to the Dlrector-tJoneral of Stores . Allowances * tll r b < Mnade to tho colonulu of the respective corns in "oil of off reckonings .
The Sanspaueil . —The new machinery of this vessel failed , from some unexplained cause , on the occasion of the trial at Plymouth last Saturday . The Militia ( West York Rides ) stationed at Pontefract have lately been committing great excesses ; and two of their lieutenants ( Hebden and Moss ) have joined in the disturbances . Assertions to this effect have been softened , but not altogether denied , by the Lieutenant-Colonel in a letter to the papers . Memorial to IjORD Raglan . —A meeting has been held at the houso of the Duke of Richmond , at which it was unanimously agreed "that a freehold estate purchased and entailed on the title and descendants of Lord Raglan would be a most desirable memorial . " Subscriptions for this purpose have been opened .
Miscellaneous. The Couut.—The King Of Po...
MISCELLANEOUS . The Couut . —The King of Portugal has arrived in England on a visit to the Queen- —The royal children are now convalescent .
America.—The State Of Afiairs In The Gre...
America . —The state of afiairs in the great western continent still remains devoid of any great interest . The Know-nothing meetings continue , and at I * ouisville have given rise to some disturbances . The speakers at an assembly having been frequently interrupted by some dissentients who were supposed to be Irish , some attacks were made upon houses occupied by Irish families . Shots were fired , and a man and woman were wounded . Kiuts of a similar character are of frequent occurrence in Louisville . —The annexation of the Sandwich Islands would seem to be shelved for the present ; for the Washington Union of the 21 st ult . states that the Secretary of State and Hon . William L . Lee , his Hawaiian Majestv ' s Minister to the American Government , has
signed a treaty of commercial reciprocity between the United States and the negro monarch . The sufferers from the destruction of Greytown have arrived at Washington , to urge their claims for indemnity . About five millions of dollars is the amount of their demand . Compensation for another error on the part of the American . Government is being sought by the parties taken out of the British brig Buffalo and conveyed to Boston , where tliev were tried and acquitted of the charge of violating the neutrality haws by enlisting men for the Crimea . These men have now brought actions against Captain Clark ; of the revenue cutter James Campbell , for illegal detention and imprisonment . The damages claimed amount to 40 , 000 dollars . —Continued
depredations Ijv the frontier-Indians , and the usual amount of locomotive explosions and sinkings of steamboats , make up the rest of the news from the United States . Trade is for the most part dull . —Central America is still agitated b } - revolution ; the Mexican rebels are animated by the most confident hopes of success ; and General Vidauri , their couamander-in-chief , has issued a decree , in which he pronounces the penalty of death against Santa Anna , his officials , general officers & . c , should he or any of them fall into the hands of the insurgents . — Carvajal , with twenty-seven other " tilibusteros" lias been discharged by the federal court at Brownsville , the judge having ordered the indictment to be quashed , as being illegal . —General Castilla , who has been elected President of the Peruvian Republic , seems disposed to a
popular policy . Tiik C / . a « ' axd the President . —The Xew York Herald publishes a communication from its Washington Correspondent dated July 20 , which states that the President had received an autograph letter from the Emperor of Russia in reply to one of congratulation on his accession to the throne . The document , which alludes in highly complimentary terms to the increasing greatness of the United States , contains a paragraph to the effect that the dying admonitory advice of the late to the present Emperor conveyed an injunction to study the
private papers to be found in the Imperial vscntotrc which he ( tho Emperor Nicholas ) had received from the eminent men in the United States , among whose names we . ro to be found those of Jackson , Clay , Webster , and others . The letter proceeds to acknowledge the value of those papers , and expresses his Majesty's sense of obligation at the strong national interest manifested by the American people in the success of the war upon which his groat father had entered . It concludes by professing the most lasting friendship between Russia and tho United States .
Tin : Potato Hi . ioht hns made its appearance in Jersey . There are also now , we are . sorry to sny , some evidences of its presence in Ireland ; but the disease has merely , and that in only a few instances , exhibited itself on the stalks , the tubers remaining perfectly sound . As the season is now far advanced , we may be permitted to liopo that the prophets of evil will be found mistaken in their anticipations . I ' luis ani > Loss ok Likk in St . Pancuas . —A boersho |» in St . Punems-road , near tho old church , has been destroyed by lire . An elderly woman and , <» young girl wen * burnt to death .
Aori . TKHATION OK FoOI > , DlUNKS , AND DlUOS . Mr . C . 11 . Burton , of Furnival ' H Inn , was examined before the Committee on Saturday , and stated in reference to an assertion that chicory ia often moulded into tho form of oolrcc borne .- ) by moans of a machine , that ho was
aware of the existence of such an invention ; that it was patented by a Mr . Duckworth , of Liverpool , in 1851 , but that it was not very remunerative , being seldom used . —Mr . George Phillips , chief officer of the Chemical Department of the Board of Inland Revenue , said chicory itself was adulterated to the extent of sixty or seventy per cent . He had known one case in which a mixture- of chicory and coffee contained ninety-five per cent , of chicory , yet this was legal , since coffee might be sold adulterated with chicory , provided the fact were legibly notified on the outside of the packet . Gin he believed was not adulterated . During the past twelve he did
years , not recollect a sample which had been doctored . He did not believe there was any truth in the report that strychnine is to be found in beer ; and grains of Paradise , he thought , are not at all prejudicial to health . Tea is adulterated before it reaches this country - but the practice of " manufacturing" it here from exhausted tea-leaves and British plants had , lie conceived been crushed by the Excise . Snuff , also , was " manufactured" to such an extent as sometimes to contain no tobacco at all . In answer to Mr . Tilliers , Mr . Phillips said he had not read Dr . Hassall ' s work , but , from the extracts that had been published , he thought there was gross exaggeration : and he said this from his own
experience , which ( m the article of beer especiall y / had been greater than Dr . Hassall ' s . Out of 1139 samples of beer which Mr . Phillips had examined , twelve only were adulterated ; but he , acknowledged that these samples were chiefly from the brewers . He also stated that government officers sometimes go down into publicans' cellars and catch the adulterators in the very act . <; i ; xpcnvr > Eii Explosion ix Cornwall . —The safetyfuse manufactory of Messrs . Hawke and Co ., of Gwennaji in Cornwall , has been completely destroyed by an explosion . Some women were engaged in binding lengths of fuse called " rods , " when one of them broke , a degree of friction ensued , which communicated with a quantity of gunpowder amounting to a hundred pounds in weight , and an explosion followed . Two of the women were killed , and all the others were injured .
Ireland . —The Clare Journal gives a very agreeable picture of the state of Ireland . The drain of the population bv the excessive tendency to leave for foreign lands is rapidly diminishing ; pauperism has decreased to a considerable extent ; and wages are higher . Destruction of a French Brig bt Fire . —The Jeune Louise , while on her voyage from Rouen to London , with a cargo of turpentine and oil , was totally destroyed by fire off Dover . The crew were saved . Mr . Bainks . President of the Poor-Law Board , has resigned his office in consequence of ill health . Mr . Bouverie will succeed Mr . Baines . Mr . Lowe has been appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade , in the place of Mr . Bouverie .
A Ship Ui > set at Liverpool . — The barque Retriever , 500 tons burden , was upset on the afternoon of Friday week , by a sudden gust of wind , as she was being * towed out of Sandon Dock , Liverpool . She turned bottom upwards , and in a very short time disappeared altogether . All the crew , however , consisting of ton or twelve hands , were saved , with the exception of one man ; but the pilot had his arm broken , and one of the sailors wns so seriously injured as to leave but slight hojw of his recovery .
Ijicomk-Tax Election Franchise . —A bill brought in by Major Heed Mr . A . Pellatt , and Mr . Oliveira , confers the right of voting for members of Parliament on all male persons of full age charged to the income-tax of the amount of 40 s . a year . A year ' s residence is required prior to the 31 st of July . Reimbursements of income-tax paid will disqualify . No person paying income-tax of 10 s ., and thereby qualified , must be registered in respect of any other qualification . The act is to take effect from the 1 st of January , \ S < > 5 .
Tin : Loud Mayor ' s Visit to Paris . —M . Alfred Magne , sou and private secretary of the French Minuter of Finance , waited a few day * since upon the Lord Mayor , to convey an invitation to his Lordship and family to be present in Paris during the approaching visit " of the Queen ; and at tho same time he placed at his Lordship ' s disposal tho Ministerial residence . Mit . John B . Goitoh , the temperance orator , left England for the United States on Saturday by tho mail steam ship America . Mr . George Vnndenhoff , sou of tho celebrated tragedian , sailed in the same ship . Moninouth
AnOli > Irishman . —During a trial at the Assize- * , touching tho right of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company to encroach upon certain Innas , some interest wa * excited by the nmwarnnco of one o the plaintiffs' witnesses , named O'Rourkc . He stated that ho was ninetv-eight years of ago , « m that ho got up that morning nt live o ' clock , his usual hour , « . nd , while all the rest of his family w ere i ,, o « jp , ma . » •«* and ink sketch of the lacu * in ^ jvl . ich ho V rod £ J « court . From tho readiness ami ^ ^ J ^ Til swore tho witness appeared to be in UUI »" . , . , iI 7 nv ji ,, r , his faculties . He wan particularly ^ l ^^ SL & which he had : % ned with ] .. « i . « n > o }»» « mftU wns fWit . . * . 7 « r . »* . ' ^ . J 'S HZ i younger man strikingly contracted with I « . t ol wlVenty-oight , called by the . lefem nntn , nn .. 1 "M > ^ u cuildiah ^ e ^ 'l ^ ord ^ S ^^ o phant ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 11, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11081855/page/7/
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